PT@CC Student Presentation Contest Winners
Each spring, the APA Committee of Psychology Teachers at Community Colleges (PT@CC) announces the PT@CC Student Presentation Contest (formerly known as the APA Electronic Project Contest) to recognize innovative and high quality electronic presentations by community college psychology students.
The PT@CC Committee extends thanks and appreciation to the APA Education Directorate. In addition, special thanks go out to all of the students who participated in the 2012 competition. Join us in congratulating this year's winners and their PT@CC sponsors:
2012
| First Place | “Effects of Age on False Memory Recall and Recognition” (PDF, 542KB)
Presentation by Ms. Amy Palinski PT@CC Sponsor: Eulalio G. Gonzalez, PhD, Lorain County Community College |
| Second Place | “Mind Over Mother: Schizophrenia vs. Motherhood” Video presentation by Mr. Michael Lee PT@CC Sponsor: Elaine Perea, PhD, Daytona State College |
| Third Place | “An Observational Study in Gender Obedience” (PDF, 360KB)
Presentation by Ms. Jacqueline Behr and Ms. Annalyn Belarmino PT@CC Sponsor: Joline Bourdages, MA, San Diego Mesa College |
2011
| First Place | “Rewiring out brain and body connection: Uses of biofeedback in the classroom” (PDF, 2MB)
Presentation by Dot Majchszak of Lorain County Community College (Ohio) PT@CC Sponsor: Vincent Granito, PhD |
| Second Place | “Stop playing around? The cognitive, social and emotional stakes” (PDF, 1.6MB)
A team presentation by Grace Pentecoste and Kelsey Williams of Suffolk County Community College (N.Y.) PT@CC Sponsor: Claire Rubman, PhD |
| Third Place | “Bullying: It hurts everyone” (PDF, 1MB)
Presentation by Kim-Marie Kirk of Suffolk County Community College (N.Y.) PT@CC Sponsor: Claire Rubman, PhD |
Before 2011, the contest was called the APA Electronic Project Contest.
2010
| First Place | “Child Sex Trafficking and Exploitation: A Global Affair” (PDF, 2MB)
Presentation by Kaitlyn Scalercio of Suffolk County Community College (N.Y.) PT@CC Sponsor: Claire N. Rubman, PhD |
| Second Place | “Chasing My Father's Shadow: A Freudian Perspective on the Effects of Paternal Absence on the Psychological Development and Identity of Children” Presentation by Joseph Eulo of Union County College (N.J.) PT@CC Sponsor: Albert Bramante, MA |
| Third Place | “Effects of Appearance on Compliance” (470, KB)
Presentation by Justin Balliet of Lehigh Carbon Community College (Pa.) PT@CC Sponsor: Robin Musselman, EdD |
2009
| First Place | “Gordos Box” (PDF, 2.54MB)
Presentation by Jessica Palmer of Mesa Community College (Az.) PT@CC Sponsor: Ann Ewing, PhD |
| Second Place | “Gender and the Recall of Relational and Overt Aggression” (PDF, 363KB)
Presentation by April Suppe of Lehigh Carbon Community College (Pa.) PT@CC Sponsor: Robin Musselman, EdD |
| Third Place | “Attention of the Lucky” (PDF, 668KB)
Presentation by Aaron Griffin of Charles Stewart Mott Community College (Mich.) PT@CC Sponsor: Gail Knapp, PhD |
